Mt Cook National Park New Zealand

Mount Cook National Park, or know as Aoraki Mt Cook, is in the South Island of New Zealand, very close to Lake Tekapo and Twizel. It is NZ's highest mountain. Mount Cook Village is the name of the place where accommodation, restaurants, and tours are.

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Mount Cook New Zealand

Mount Cook also is known as Aoraki Mt Cook, 3,753 meters above sea level, is the highest peak in New Zealand.  New Zealand created the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in 1953. It is in the central and western parts of the South Island of New Zealand.

The park is from Arthur's Pass in the south and Maine Ridge in the west. It is in the most spectacular and beautiful middle section of the Southern Alps. There are nearly 20 high mountains over three kilometers in the territory, as well as 360 glaciers, the longest glaciers in New Zealand. The Tasman Glacier is among them.

The glacier in Mount Cook is relatively small compares to Fox Glacier. I will put more snow photos on the Fox Glacier when I write it. For dinner, we ate at the Old Mountaineer Cafe, Bar, and Restaurant near the Hermitage hotel. Thick steak and lamb chops. Tired. (Picture abbreviated) The next day the heavens are not beautiful, light rain, thick clouds cover the mountain peaks. We put on a jacket and went to Lake Tasman. The icebergs in the lake were blue-green. It's been a long time.

Cook Alpine Salmon Farm, at Pukaki's viewing point, the cabin is inconspicuous. The salmon is very fresh. Soy sauce and mustard must be purchased separately. I bought it and could eat directly on the tables and chairs outside the wooden house. The scenery is beautiful.

Mount Cook is the New Zealand mountaineering sports center, and also a famous tourist spot in New Zealand, especially in the South Island.

There are many recreational items here, and there are also many tourists. The main recreational activities are (1) Mountain climbing. There are multiple climbing routes. (2) On foot. There are also numerous hiking trails. (3) Tasman Ice Lake Boat Tour. (4) Take a plane for aerial sightseeing and land directly on top of the glacier. (5) Glacier hiking.

Special Note: If you are traveling to Mount Cook to book the Hermitage Hotel at the foot of the mountain, you must book your room half a year in advance. One must bring good food on foot; there is no restaurant on the way. There are gravel roads along the way; shoes should be comfortable to wear.

To go to the Hooker Valley, I recommend to first go to the information center to get the information, check the weather conditions, etc., then go to the DOC Camping Ground, where there are parking lots and toilets. From here, proceed to the first bridge and Mueller Glacier Lake (if you travel here, about 30 minutes), cross the bridge to the second bridge and continue forward to Hooker Glacier Lake. After returning. It takes about 2.5-3 hours. It takes about 4 hours to return to the village of Cook.

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Queenstown to Mount Cook

Travel to the foothills of New Zealand's most distinguished mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook, on a half-day sightseeing tour from Queenstown to Christchurch.

Mt Cook Village is 55km off the Christchurch-Queenstown highway, about 3 hours north of Queenstown and 3.5 hours south of Christchurch.

The distance between Queenstown and Mt Cook National Park is 184 km. The length of the road trip is 264.2 km.

There are two ways to get from Queenstown to Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park

By flight:

Departing from Queenstown Airport in Frankton, the stunning 1-hour scenic flight to Aoraki/Mount Cook takes in the dramatic sceneries of immense valleys, remarkable lakes, and New Zealand's highest mountains.

By bus or self-driving:

Queenstown into the Cromwell Gorge to Cromwell.

Cromwell Gorge very scenic, the road out from Queenstown has beautiful wineries-you could stock up for a warming wine later that night! Then from Cromwell via Tarras, it has a well-recommended craft/wool shop.

The Lindis Pass is one of my most favorite drives-tussock hills as far as you can through Omarama, Twizel, and up to Mt Cook Village

South of Mount Cook, past the distinctive tussock land of the Mackenzie Country, the vivid blue glacier-fed Lake Tekapo, massive hydro-dams and the township of Cromwell (known as The Fruit Bowl of the South"), is the world-renowned tourist destination of Queenstown, a lake and alpine resort and New Zealand's adventure capital.

Three days from Queenstown to Mt Cook Village for us means exploring the best bits of the South Island - adventure activities, the great outdoors, the Southern Alps, walks, mountain biking, great food, delicious wine the list goes on!

Can I drive from Queenstown to Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park?

The quickest way to get from Queenstown to Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park is to drive, which costs 30€ - 50€ and takes 3h 3m.